Amazon
Principal, Senior, Distinguished Engineer, AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services, AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services
$200K–$311K
Arlington, VA +7 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Location
- Arlington, VA
Santa Clara, CA
Bellevue, WA
Seattle, WA
Santa Monica, CA
New York, NY
Irvine, CA
East Palo Alto, CA - Experience
- 10+ years of design and development engineering experience.
About the job
Leads the technical strategy and hands-on design of AWS foundational storage, data, and caching systems operating at massive scale.
What you'll do
- Design strategic storage, data, and caching systems and lead architecture across AWS foundational services.
- Mentor engineers and solve durability, availability, latency, and failure-mode challenges.
- Drive cross-team engineering strategy, operational excellence, and technical talent growth.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of design and development engineering experience.
- Experience collaborating across multiple organizations and influencing key outcomes.
- Experience technically leading multiple concurrent projects and driving strategic technical decisions.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed systems, storage or database internals, high-throughput data systems, and performance-critical caching.
- Experience with big data and analytics engines, containerized microservices, serverless functions, event-driven architecture, or planet-scale production systems.
Pay
200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually (base salary); 230,100.00 - 311,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3 Glacier, Amazon Redshift, EMR, SageMaker, AWS Database Services
AI focus
Build high-performance caching for GenAI and analytics workloads, and evolve foundational data infrastructure for the AI era.
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